Raja Bell

— Long before the one-year audition, long before the nomadic decade of 10-day contracts strung together in the NBA, and long before his first meeting with Jim Calhoun, Kevin Ollie was learning the art of survival in the most real sense of that word. "I saw friends of mine get killed," Ollie said. "I saw different things where I had to become street-smart, I had to be aware of what I had to do on a day-to-day basis to survive." The polished, personable Kevin Ollie, who has taken on the daunting task of replacing Calhoun as UConn's basketball coach, and who is doing it with all the disadvantages that come with a one-season guarantee, was hardened in the South...

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— Long before the one-year audition, long before the nomadic decade of 10-day contracts strung together in the NBA, and long before his first meeting with Jim Calhoun, Kevin Ollie was learning the art of survival in the most real sense of that...